According to the British tabloid, The Mirror, a government memo has turned up which reveals that Bush once suggested blowing up the headquarters of the Arab news network al-Jazeera. The Mirror reports that it was Tony Blair who talked Bush out of the insane idea.
PRESIDENT Bush planned to bomb Arab TV station al-Jazeera in friendly Qatar, a "Top Secret" No 10 memo reveals.
But he was talked out of it at a White House summit by Tony Blair, who said it would provoke a worldwide backlash.
A source said: "There's no doubt what Bush wanted, and no doubt Blair didn't want him to do it." Al-Jazeera is accused by the US of fuelling the Iraqi insurgency.
The attack would have led to a massacre of innocents on the territory of a key ally, enraged the Middle East and almost certainly have sparked bloody retaliation. . .
A source said last night: "The memo is explosive and hugely damaging to Bush.
A Government official suggested that the Bush threat had been "humorous, not serious".
But another source declared: "Bush was deadly serious, as was Blair. That much is absolutely clear from the language used by both men."
Of course, we know our pResident would never ever suggest such a thing.
An editorial in the same publication notes that this revelation "casts fresh doubt on claims that other attacks on al-Jazeera were accidents. It looks like these were planned assaults on civilian targets."
The editorial concludes:
[U]ntil the White House regime changes, the world should tremble with fear at what this president might do next.
Who you going to believe? A tabloid? Or Dubya?
Hat tip to Taegan Goddard
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